Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1887-03-18
Umpqua Ferry Items.
DUPLEX.

March showers.
The grouse hooteth on the hills, hands off
yc CORY game butchers.
Mr., coyote had better make himself scarce
around these ''dlggins' for the stock men have
set price on his scalp, which, with the coun-
ty bounty, amounts TO $4,000. The nimrods
anticipate an early fail Of shekels.
The instructions in the Plaindcaler last
week for poisoning coyotes is commcndable for
its simplicity. First catch your coyote cay
there's the rub and poison its carcass and
place it where others may get it etc. Now if
somebody will tell us how oget one to start
with, we will try the experiment.
Our literary club continues to be 4 drawing
card. On Saturday eve, the house vas vel,
flied. The most exciting event Of the eve
ming was the debating of the dancing qucs.
ton, which was shown up in all its different
lights, but once more progressive reasoning
triumphed and dancing was proved to he a
moral amusement and INDUCED in by the lest
people. Mr.. Lee Wright furnished the club
with some most excellent music on his clarionet
which was great help in making the hours
slip pleasantly away.
Mr.. G. w. Geneer seems to think there is
an African in that prohibition od-pile. Go
in George and if you can smell him out boost
him, but am afraid you will be with the 81
lent minority next November. You must re-
member that this is an age Of progression and
these old whiskey drinking liberties will soon
be a thing OF the past. This day and age can't
drag along with such relics of barbarlsm as
this
We cannot let this opportunity slip by with
out thanking Johnny Green for the liberal puff
! he gave us last week. We assure the public
that we did not .pay Johnny a single cent for
the short sketch he gave Of our family; he
wrote that prompted by his generous whole
souled nature without money and without price.
Oh, John-i how can we thank thee enough.
He says we are the only individuals in this
section of the country that does not break the
law. But John-i our extreme modesty iorbids
us taking all this to ourselves, we think if you
will canvass the country a little that you will
find somebody besides poor 'we' that keep
the laws Of their country inviolatc. That is
drawing 1t rather strong TO claim that with one
single exception everybody is a lawbreaker.
Johnny thinks have him catalosued with
''tnieves and vagabonds." Now Johnny read
that article again and see where you have put
yourself. 1t reads something like this, ''and it
is TO be regretted that respectable people give
ii their sanction, thereby giving it a favor Of
decency when it should be consigned to the
slunls among thieves and vagabonds where II
belongs" Now Johnny see where you have
put yourself. l can't quarrel with you on thi:
subject Hxyou know best where you belong
Your theory that the old pioneers should no
be expected y observe the law is too shallow
to discuss herA They are not as class The
violators Of this Jaw and don't think yor
could find dozen Of them that would be will
ing TO have law made for their late arrived
neighbor that they couldn't live under. N,
5 Johnny this is not what is troubling you a
all. You have violated the law and are nov
trying to find some excuse for doing it bu
there is none SO you denounce the law. 1t i
an old saying that ''No thief ere felt the hal
ter draw with good opinion of the law"
this county could import from Grants Pas
that officer that has been working such
hardship among the game butchers out ther
r he might exercise little wholesome law t,
our violators.
If our next grand jury has nothing else t.
do it might turn its attention this way.
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